crepuscular
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- adjective
- /krəˈpʌskjələr/
- Literature
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crepuscular
- The crepuscular light made the garden look mysterious as the sun began to set.
- crepuscular rays
- crepuscular light
- crepuscular gloom
Examples
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The city below was coming through its skin, snake-like and crepuscular, reinventing itself for the hundredth time.
Fiction book (1994) -
Evelyn, even she, saw in the crepuscular light changes in Rudolph's upper body as he stretched: muscles like globes of light rippled along his shoulders; larval currents moved on his belly.
Fiction book (1997) -
When the dinner was over, I went outside to smoke a cigarette under the crepuscular orange sky.
Blog text (1) -
Inside it was cold, musty, crepuscular.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the room's crepuscular light, her face seemed like a symbol of the changes they both had lived through since those days, and of the continuity that somehow kept them linked.
Fiction book (1996) -
The mountains slant down into the lake, the clouds slant down over the summits, and the sunlight, beautifully crepuscular, slants through what cracks remain.
Fiction book (1992) -
There is reason to suppose that devils inhabit our provinces as comfortably as they inhabit the ocean depths, crepuscular forests, precipices, or deserts.
Fiction book (1991) -
Genius is literate, respectful, and well-written, if more than a bit somber and strangely crepuscular, as if the incandescent bulb had not been fully perfected by the 1930s.
Academic text (2016) -
As the day faded, the crepuscular shadows deepened, creating an ethereal atmosphere.
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The animals were most active in the crepuscular hours, just before dawn and after sunset.
Synonyms
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Dim light like the sky just after the sun goes down
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Light that is soft and dim like at sunset or sunrise
A place that is dark and misty and feels gloomy
Dark and gloomy in a way that makes a place feel sad or scary
Antonyms
How Dim
Surface Forms
Morphology
crepuscular = crepuscul + ar
Formed with the adjective suffix '-ar' on the combining form 'crepuscul-', which is not a productive or familiar English base, so learners cannot reliably infer 'twilight' from the parts.
Etymology
Crepuscular comes from the Latin word crepusculum, which means 'twilight', so it describes that dim, soft light you see just after sunset or before sunrise.